Natalie O'Brien, Neelima Choahan
An asylum seeker is believed to have died from a heart attack at a West Australian immigration detention centre amid claims he had been denied medical treatment for two weeks.

Mark Kenny
Tony Abbott has broken days of radio silence to comment directly on the crisis surrounding his hand-picked Speaker, Bronwyn Bishop, as marginal-seat MPs admit they are becoming increasingly frustrated.

Nicole Hasham
A refugee's visa application would be fast-tracked if they paid a potential $19,000 fee and their family in Australia promised to cover health and welfare costs, under proposals the Abbott government is weighing to cut refugee costs.

Mark Kenny
As a shell-shocked government looks to rebuild its credibility from the damage sustained by the Bronwyn Bishop "choppergate" scandal, attention appropriately swings to who should take over and why.

Mark Kenny
In politics, nothing unites like the prospect of electoral success. So it is perhaps unsurprising that Labor's notoriously rambunctious internal agitators have tamed themselves at the party's National Conference.

Deborah Snow and James Robertson
Australians want to know why, if the age of entitlement is really over as Joe Hockey declared in February last year, it's not also over for their elected representatives.

Judith Ireland
Beyond its official, non-controversial use in government buildings and at sporting events, in a day-to-day sense, the Australian flag has become intertwined with a certain brand of intolerance.

James Massola Foreign Minister Julie Bishop's hopes of establishing a criminal tribunal to prosecute the murderers of the 298 people killed when Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot down a year ago have been dashed.